Connection is everything, from growing your business to feeling personally fulfilled. This conversation examines how cultivating a loyal, engaged community can drive business growth, innovation, and resilience. Community building has become it’s own expertise. What strategies can businesses employ to build and nurture these communities? How does the value created in these relationships translate into [...]

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In today’s conversation we’re tackling the topic of THE POWER OF ENOUGH: In a world where business success is often measured by scale, what does it mean to say, "This is enough"? This discussion explores what happens when we decide to scale in unconventional ways -- or decide not to “scale” at all. This conversation [...]

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In today’s conversation we’re tackling the topic of Uncommon Success Metrics: What are the markers of success if you take MONEY out of the mix These roundtable conversations have centered on moments in business owners’ lives when things aren’t going exactly as planned. And usually that comes back to revenue goals. It’s a metric we [...]

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In today’s conversation we’re tackling the topic of Radical Transparency: What SHOULD business owners share and what SHOULD we have permission to keep private? In a society that relishes “behind the scenes” the so-called “dish” and purported “reality...” we’re being called upon to be REAL but is REAL what the world really wants? It’s true [...]

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In today’s conversation we’re tackling the topic of getting guidance --  When SHOULD you have a mentor or a coach and when is the right time to go it alone...and that strange and confusing time when has a mentor led you astray? This is a conversation about getting clear about what you don’t know -- [...]

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In this episode we’re tackling the topic of Emotional Labor, On the Clock (in managing clients) and Off the Clock, the extra responsibility we carry...and what happens when you are just DONE bearing that burden. Emotional Labor is the unrecognized and surreptitious activity of having to tend or support or manage the interpersonal emotional engagements [...]

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There’s something that happens to us when we’re not seeing the “real” stuff that each other is going through. We start to feel alone. Have you ever felt that way? Alone in your challenge? I experienced this early in my entrepreneurial life. And this theme started repeating itself last year, when everything felt so challenging. [...]

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There’s something that happens to us when we’re not seeing the “real” stuff that each other is going through. We start to feel alone. Have you ever felt that way? Alone in your challenge? I experienced this early in my entrepreneurial life. And this theme started repeating itself last year, when everything felt so challenging. [...]

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There’s something that happens to us when we’re not seeing the “real” stuff that each other is going through. We start to feel alone. Have you ever felt that way? Alone in your challenge? I experienced this early in my entrepreneurial life. And this theme started repeating itself last year, when everything felt so challenging. [...]

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There’s something that happens to us when we’re not seeing the “real” stuff that each other is going through. We start to feel alone. Have you ever felt that way? Alone in your challenge? I experienced this early in my entrepreneurial life. And this theme started repeating itself last year, when everything felt so challenging. [...]

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